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Noites De Cintra

  [english | 1908]  

Alberto Augusto De Almeida Pimentel

Excerpts: [... porque durante mais de dois mezes nos forneceu alegrissimo assumpto sempre que nos juntavamos todos ou pelo menos alguns. Deviamos partir em abril, ...... que interrompesse. O p de arroz, continuei eu, era ainda considerado como um deboche de toillette. D. Christina punha muito p de arroz na face, no collo ...... poetica ave principiava a amar logo depois das ave-marias, como um ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 235

O Annel Mysterioso

  [english | 1904]  

Alberto Augusto De Almeida Pimentel

Excerpts: [... 47. 1904. PROLOGO DA 3. EDIO. Este um dos romances da minha mocidade. Foi publicado pelos editores da Bibliotheca Universal, de Lisboa, em 1873. ...... no dia 17 em que ali entrou, que era impossivel qualquer defeza, mandou retirar pela estrada do Porto, resolvido a embargar denodadamente o passo ...... Strech. Ferido no peito, se bem que houvesse dissimulado a gravidade do ...]
Genres: [war | history] Downloads: 7

O Poeta Chiado

  [english | 1903]  

Alberto Augusto De Almeida Pimentel

Excerpts: [... da Historia de Portugal. Sociedade editora LIVRARIA MODERNA. R. Augusta, 95 TYPOGRAPHIA. 35, R. Ivens, 37 1903. As relaes de amizade ...... o nome de Chiado antiga rua da Porta de Santa Catharina ou a parte d'ella. O povo baptiza melhor do que a camara municipal, porque baptiza com mais ...... prior da dita Igreya e guomcallo diaz e Jorge Rebejro e pedro ortyz e ffrancisquo de ...]
Genres: [poetry] Downloads: 381

Crome Yellow

  [english | 1921]  

Aldous Huxley

Summary: [Written directly after WWI this novel reflected Huxleys unchanging and always detached world view -- expressed in his often bitter and cynical probing into what he took as the universal failure of humans to either comprehend themselves or others. This novel is primarily a series of character studies marked by philosophical digressions. In this as his other works the author takes a lofty moral ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | satire | audiobook] Downloads: 170

Fairy Tales Of The Slav Peasants And Herdsmen

  [english | 1896]  

Aleksander Chodzko

Summary: [Fairy Tales Of The Slav Peasants And Herdsmen by Aleksander B Chodzko. Very few of the twenty fairy tales included in this volume have been presented before in an English dress this will doubtless enhance their value in the eyes of the young folk for whom principally they are intended. It is hoped that older readers will find some additional interest in tracing throughout the many evidences of ...]
Genres: [fiction | fantasy | fairy tales folk tales mythology] Downloads: 162

Yama The Pit

  [english | 1915]  

Aleksandr Kuprin

Summary: [A novel about prostitution in Moscow.From the introduction:It must not be thought despite its locale that Kuprins Yama is a picture of Russian prostitution solely it is intrinsically universal. All that is necessary is to change the kopecks into cents pennies sous or pfennings compute the versts into miles or metres Jennka may be Eugenie or Jeannette and for Yama simply read Whitechapel ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 224

La Dame De Pique

  [french | 1834]  

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

Excerpts: [... au pharaon. Un soir, au jeu de la cour, elle perdit sur parole, contre le duc d???Orl??ans, une somme tr??s consid??rable. Rentr??e chez elle, ...... Tomski. ??? Comment?! s?????cria Naroumof, tu as une grand-m??re qui sait trois cartes gagnantes, et tu n???as pas encore su te les faire indiquer?? ...... ans, et mettait ?? sa toilette tout le temps et toute la pompe d???une petite ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 344

La Fille Du Capitaine

  [french | 1836]  

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

Excerpts: [... m'invita `a d^iner avec lui, `a la soldat, et, comme on dit, de ce que Dieu nous envoie. J'acceptai avec plaisir nous nous m^imes `a table Zourine ...... fouet le c^ot'e de l'orient.) - Je ne vois rien de plus que la steppe blanche et le ciel serein. - L`a, l`a, regarde... ce petit nuage. >> J'apercus, ...... Donne-lui ta b'en'ediction. >> Je me mets `a genoux et j'attache mes ...]
Genres: [fiction | romance | short stories] Downloads: 471

Mon Portrait

  [french | 1814]  

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

Excerpts: []
Genres: [fiction | poetry] Downloads: 419

Recits De Feu Ivan Petrovitch Bielkine

  [french | 1830]  

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

Excerpts: [... P'elagu'eya Gavrilovna, n'ee Trafilina. C''etait un homme peu fortun'e, mais de besoins mod'er'es, et fort habile dans la g'erance de ses terres. Leur ...... gens excusent le moins, car ils voient d'ordinaire dans le courage le m'erite supr^eme et l'excuse de tous les vices. Cependant peu `a peu tout fut ...... de la Fortune. Imaginez la jeunesse, l'esprit, la beaut'e, la gaiet'e ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 328

The Daughter Of The Commandant

  [english | 1836]  

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

Summary: [Pyotr Andreyich Grinyov is the only surviving child of a retired army officer. When Pyotr turns 17 his father sends him into military service in Orenburg. En route Pyotr gets lost in a blizzard but is rescued by a mysterious man. As a token of his gratitude Pyotr gives the guide his hareskin jacket.Arriving in Orenburg Pyotr reports to his commanding officer and is assigned to serve at Belogorsky ...]
Genres: [fiction | romance | war military] Downloads: 65

The Queen Of Spades

  [english | 1834]  

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

Summary: [Pushkins story tells of the Russianized German card player Hermann--an engineer in the army in Russia--who becomes obsessed with the secret of three consecutive winning cards after hearing a story about an old countess winnings years prior. His obsession drives him to manipulate the countess ward Lizaveta Ivanovna into letting him into their home.]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 295

The Shot

  [english | 1830]  

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

Excerpts: [... His dinners, it is true, never consisted of more than two or three dishes, prepared by a retired soldier, but the champagne flowed like water. Nobody ...... had ever fought, he drily replied he had but he entered into no particulars, and it was evident that such questions were not to his liking. We came to the ...... and the laughter of his comrades, considered himself grossly ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 487

Dry Frugal With Death Rays

  [english | 2008]  

Alex Wilson

Summary: [Dry Frugal With Death Rays is a dark satire of office politics corporate bureaucracy thwarted ambition and revenge gone awry - enjoy!]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 244

The Brain

  [english | 1948]  

Alexander Blade

Summary: [Brain-Washing sometimes referred to as The Brainwashing Manual is a book published by the Church of Scientology in 1955. It purports to be a condensation of the work of Lavrentiy Beria the Soviet secret police chief. Its true authorship remains unclear the three common hypotheses being: scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard Kenneth Goff or both swiping a common U.S. agency report. It is also ...]
Genres: [science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 14

The Plotters

  [english | 1948]  

Alexander Blade

Summary: [He came from a far planet to find some of the Earths secrets. But Marko found other things too?like his love for beautiful Beth.]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 39

Zero Hour

  [english | 1956]  

Alexander Blade

Summary: [The Hour of the Gate is a fantasy novel written by Alan Dean Foster. The book follows the continuing adventures of Jonathan Thomas Meriweather who is transported from our world into a land of talking animals and magic. It is the second book in the Spellsinger series.]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 244

Acte

  [french | 1839]  

Alexandre Dumas

Summary: [crit en 1839 ce roman peu connu est lune des rares fictions de Dumas se situant dans lantiquit (avec bien entendu Isaac Laquedem son grand roman inachev). Act est une jeune Corinthienne qui devient la matresse de lempereur Nron. Son histoire permet lcrivain dvoquer le rgne du cruel empereur en une fresque impressionnante.]
Genres: [fiction | historical] Downloads: 400

Ali Pacha

  [english | 1840]  

Alexandre Dumas

Summary: [Ali Pacha by Alexandre Dumas. Alexandre Dumas was a French writer best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels including The Count of Monte Cristo The Three Musketeers Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were serialized. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 103

Ange Pitou Tome I Les Memoires Dun Medecin

  [french | 1851]  

Alexandre Dumas

Summary: [Suite du cycle Les mmoires dun mdecin. Gilbert llve de Jean-Jacques Rousseau et lami de Balsamo que lon croyait mort (voir Joseph Balsamo) revient en France aprs un sjour en Amrique o il a mis au service de la libert ses talents de philosophe et de mdecin. peine arriv au Havreil se fait arrter alors que dans le mme temps on vole un coffret lui appartenant et quil avait confi au fermier Billot de ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | historical] Downloads: 67